"Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art"
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- "Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art"
- Envy and Simile
- "I were steadfast as thou art"
- Keats wants to power of remaining throughout time
- He wants to be remember and recognised for his work
- "I were steadfast as thou art"
- Personification
- "watching, with eternal lids"
- The star is watching over as time passes, never changing.
- Keats s envious of the Stars eternal life
- "watching, with eternal lids"
- structure
- Alternate rhyming scheme
- Sonnet - Shakespearean - conventionally a love poem
- Iambic Pentameter
- simile or possibly Ambiguity
- "Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite"
- personify nature and giving it a sense of humanisation
- 'patient' - possible illness, something which nature is curing?
- "Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite"
- Paradox
- "Sweet unrest"
- could suggest that he is content with what he has, but still wants more that life can offer.
- "Sweet unrest"
- Themes of love and death
- "Or else swoon to death"
- interweaving the two themes, creating strong emotions which Keats might have felt towards the lover.
- "Or else swoon to death"
- Continuous Verb
- "love's ripening breast"
- the woman is possibly still developing into a woman. her growth - significant in referencing the age of Fanny.
- "love's ripening breast"
- Envy and Simile
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